Ryanair boss: UK politicians are ‘headless chickens’

Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary said on Wednesday that the airline will base its new fleet outside of the U.K. because of prevailing uncertainty and confusion in the country after the Brexit vote.

O’Leary announced four new destinations from Glasgow Airport and explained the change of location in the interview with the Belfast Telegraph. “We’re being very cautious about the amount of capacity we’re allocating to the U.K. over the next two or three years until we get some kind of indication of what Brexit will look like,” O’Leary said.

British politicians, who are trying to figure out a way to separate from the EU are acting like “headless chickens,” with “no idea where they’re going to finish up,” O’Leary said.

“It’s not because we’re annoyed or anything with the U.K., but we have much more political certainty in continental Europe than we have in the U.K. while they’re all running around trying to work out what Brexit looks like,” he added.

According to an article by The Irish Times, Ryanair is moving 3 percent of its capacity from Dublin, the equivalent of about 1, 580 flights per year, to other European airports.

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O’Leary is the absolute epitome of everything that is wrong with unfettered capitalism today. He doesn’t give a stuff about anything or anyone, as long as he’s making money for himself and his shareholders. A nasty piece of work who will be remembered solely for telling his customers to stop bleating about being railroaded like cattle onto his aircraft because they were paying such low prices for places on his bucket airline.
The photo sums him up!